FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Errata

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Last modified on 2018-12-13 19:55:47 by gjb.

Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE,
containing significant information discovered after the
release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise
included in the release documentation. This information
includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the
software or documentation that could affect its operation or
usability. An up-to-date version of this document should
always be consulted before installing this version of
FreeBSD.

This errata document for FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE will be maintained
until the release of FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE.

1.Â Introduction

This errata document contains “late-breaking
news” about FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Before installing this
version, it is important to consult this document to learn about
any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have
been found and fixed.

Any version of this errata document actually distributed
with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
the Internet and should be consulted as the “current
errata” for this release. These other copies of the
errata are located at https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any
sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 12-STABLE also
contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
the snapshot).

4.Â Open Issues

[2018-12-11] Some IntelÂ® J1900 systems may hang on boot
in UEFI mode. An observed workaround is
to set kern.vty=sc at the loader(8)
prompt. To have the setting persist after reboot(8),
add kern.vty=sc to
loader.conf(5).

[2018-12-11] OpenSSL version
1.1.1 disables use of hardware cryptography accelerator
cards provided by crypto(4) by default. Systems that
have cryptography devices such as hifn(4),
padlock(4), safe(4), and ubsec(4) currently
will not take advantage of hardware cryptography
offloading.

It is currently unclear if an Errata Notice will be
issued to re-enable use of crypto(4).

[2018-12-13] Due to the size of the base system of
FreeBSDÂ 12.0, the disc1.iso images for amd64 and
i386 do not fit onto a 700Â MB
CD-ROM. As of FreeBSDÂ 12.0-RELEASE,
however, disc1.iso for these architectures can be written to
a flash drive, or to a DVD.

[2018-12-13] Some users have reported
FreeBSDÂ 12.0-RELEASE boot messages do not report
CPUs other than CPU0.
This is expected behavior introduced in
r333334, and results in boot-time
reduction.

[2018-12-13] The FreeBSDÂ 12.0 release notes mention
use of graphics/drm-stable-kmod and
graphics/drm-legacy-kmod
for modern graphics cards. These ports have been changed to
a "meta port" in the Ports Collection, and will be
renamed in the 2019Q1 quarterly branch,
after which graphics/drm-kmod should be used
instead.